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From:Arab Studies Quarterly (Vol. 34, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe United States usually presents itself in exceptional terms. In the last thirty years, it has presented itself as the beacon of democracy. As "leader of the free world," the United States has taken upon itself the...
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From:Demokratizatsiya (Vol. 26, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWhat role did the US play in one of the latest waves of democratization--the Central and Eastern European wave of electoral breakthroughs in the late 1990s and early 2000s? Did the US orchestrate it? Many in the region...
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From:PS: Political Science & Politics (Vol. 32, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedFrench philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville argued that the issue of race seriously undermines American democracy. In his monumental book 'Democracy in America,' Tocqueville saw the principle of modern slavery as a major...
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From:PS: Political Science & Politics (Vol. 32, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedFrench philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville and his monumental book 'Democracy in America' served as the impetus for a multidisciplinary teaching initiative conceptualized by C-SPAN in the summer of 1996. C-SPAN assembled a...
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From:Armed Forces & Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal (Vol. 21, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedSecret operations and covert activities are employed by governments to influence foreign policy. The single most important characteristic that separates and defines these two actions is that covert operations allow a...
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From:Prairie Schooner (Vol. 88, Issue 4)I see you like to wave him about Like a magic wand to make all evil disappear instantly Remember son He is a senile, ancient one Who uses human bones For a walking stick...
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From:French Politics, Culture and Society (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSeymour Drescher is a fine economic and social historian and Tocqueville scholar; Arthur Goldhammer is among the best translators of French working today; Melvin Richter is a distinguished scholar of the history of...
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From:ILR Review (Vol. 48, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedCross-national comparisons over time are rare ventures in industrial relations research. In 1975--76 the IDE International Research Group, consisting of team members from 10 western European countries, Israel, and...
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From:American Political Science Review (Vol. 91, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedUS social scientists and political theorists err when they isolate Joseph Schumpeter's portrayal of democracy as a political method from the rest of his work. His writings on social science provides a broader social...
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From:The Wilson Quarterly (Vol. 24, Issue 2)A Survey of Recent Articles While Karl Marx has fallen sharply on the intellectual stock exchange in recent years, Alexis de Tocqueville has dramatically risen. To mark the 10th anniversary of the Journal of...
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From:Journal of International Affairs (Vol. 71, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedDemocracy promotion has become a standard instrument in the foreign policy toolbox of many countries in the West. This paper challenges the unquestioned eagerness with which this tool has been widely deployed....
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From:PS: Political Science & Politics (Vol. 32, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedFrench philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville described American democracy as a political ideology shaped by culture. His monumental book 'Democracy in America' set out the principles underlying American democracy and...
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From:Daedalus (Vol. 139, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedModern American journalism considers itself a "bulwark of democracy." Journalists argue that they report the news so that the citizenry can inform itself and participate in the "conversation" that journalists believe is...
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From:The Wilson Quarterly (Vol. 36, Issue 4)THE SOURCE: "Tocqueville and America" by James Q. Wilson, in The Claremont Review of Books, Spring 2012. ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE LITERALLY WROTE the book on the Unites States. Democracy in America (1835-1840), informed...
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From:French Politics, Culture and Society (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAt the beginning of the twenty-first century Democracy in America (1835-1840) reverberates through US political culture with more vibrancy than at any time since its original appearance. (1) Newspapers and news...
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From:Journal of International Affairs (Vol. 49, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe Chinese democracy movement requires the development of mass private organizations to overcome the political power of the authoritarian state. Such organizations should have moderate images, formal structures, clear...
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From:Contemporary Southeast Asia (Vol. 34, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedSince the new government took power in 2011, the citizens of Myanmar have enjoyed a greater degree of freedom than at any time since the military seized power in 1962. This article explains how the recent political...
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From:French Politics, Culture and Society (Vol. 26, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAlthough mass migration to the United States and to France did not occur until after Tocqueville's visit to America, by rereading Tocqueville's classic De la democratie en Amerique through the lens of immigration...
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From:Stanford Law Review (Vol. 57, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedINTRODUCTION It is a great honor to be part of this symposium. John Hart Ely's classic book has helped to shape the intellectual agenda of constitutional scholars ever since it appeared. Democracy and Distrust (1)...
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From:Independent Review (Vol. 12, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedOver the past few decades, as Karl Marx was thrown into the dustbin, Alexis de Tocqueville came surging back from the graveyard of intellectual history. Tocqueville's main claim to fame is as the author of Democracy in...